Hi, On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 19 June 2008 06:57:12 pm ab wrote:
i just recently discovered that some older 10.2 box is completely out of sync as the updates/patches repository it got subscribed to during install time back then is only having patches from year 2007.
this is total madness. somebody gotta keep this list clean and only distributing reliable and current mirrors.
It is redirector problem if you use http://download.opensuse.org that we can't do much about, just complain as you did, or use some dependable mirror directly, as I do.
example is: <http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.2/repodata/> (current)
I use that one directly, although I'm on the other side of the ocean. Though, you may consider new, faster Goettingen server: ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.2/repodata/
From release of OpenSUSE 11.0 yesterday, I see that ftp connections to ftp5.gwdg.de have a severe waiting time before the "data connection" becomes running. No timeout, just wait - was about 1 hour 15 hours before, is still several minutes currently. This is due to the way new sockets are handled by the kernel. So using http: instead of ftp: is a good workaround because it does not need a second port connection. But, using ftp5.gwdg.de "by hand", be aware: since 9:30 h MEST yesterday the server delivers the maximum (1 GBit/sec), so you will probably get less throughput against ftp3.gwdg.de. But the DVD ISOs are only on ftp5.
For me Goettingen is not the fastest mirror, but it is the most dependable.
Surely. I like to see me as a professional, and I could not without this. But some day in beginning of july ftp5 will have to do a reboot, to switch to a bigger filesystem (8 TB XFS - is 5 TB ext3fs currently). At the same time ftp5 will switch to SLES10 SP2 from SP1, but this will not need extra time. Only some fresh mirrorings < 2 h will become invalid (the new filesystem gets rsynced continuously, but each internal run needs about 2 hours to fulfill).
<http://ftp.tu-ilmenau.de/Mirrors/ftp.suse.com/update/10.2/repodata/> (way outdated)
I'm tired of redirector and I don't want to deal with that for now. It needs improvements, like taking feedback from clients, but for that zypper and YaST Software Management have to be changed too, to give such feedback. Download errors, slow connection, missing packages, etc, than redirector will not slam user with the same broken mirror time and again.
Please don't talk bad about the OpenSUSE redirector without reflection. It is one of the best and most needed ideas since long, a solution for a lot of problems at the mirror sides, and - in my guess - already very reliable. And it does the actual redirection on a previous per-file verification. At home, I use the http://download.opensuse.org/ URLs, and I see no need to use "my" ftp5.gwdg.de instead. Viele Grüße Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) -- Eberhard Mönkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoenke@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumair Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 -------------------------------------------------------------------------